Signed, Sealed, Delivered
In Ephesians, Paul praises God who is eternally and incontrovertibly for us. For us. God is for us. So much so that God blesses us, chooses us, adopts us, destines us, redeems us, forgives us.
Jiu-Jitsu
The point, process and net effect of the Gospel of Jesus Christ working in us and through us is freedom. Freedom! Freedom from self-centeredness. Freedom from avarice. Freedom from fear. Freedom from fear of death. Freedom from hate. Freedom from isolation. Freedom...
Harvest
Harvest labor, Jesus says, is down into the fingernail-dirty corners of the world where the poor live who don’t often make it into our churches. It’s down into the muck of human relationships.
Defeating Giants
David and Goliath is one of the best stories in the Bible. Spoiler alert! Goliath loses big to the teenager!
Questions
Maturing faith appreciates questions.
Grace-grit
God intervenes through grace. Our response to grace is thanksgiving. It’s a call and response, a cause and effect.
Choose
For Jesus, relieving human suffering was worship! For Jesus, religious and political structures exist to affirm human dignity and deliver mercy.
Freedom-House
The church ought to be a freedom-house. The best measure of that isn’t how high the steeple is or how deep the endowment runs, but how many people here are being made free.
Power-House
What is the church? The answer is right there in the story of Pentecost! God intends for the church- the people and where we gather- to be a Power-House!
Freedom
Spirituality is a complex of practices and values concerned with the divine urge for our freedom. Spirituality is about being set free.